Improved method op preparing-, desiccating, and preserving pish



the skin and bones.

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WILLIAM D. CUTLER, OFPIIILADELP'HIA, PENNSYLVANIA;

- Letters Patent No. 81,987, dated September 8, 1868.

nvrenovnn METHOD or PREPARING, DIlSICCATING; AND 'PRESERVIN'G-I'ISH.

The Schedule referred to in, these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

To all whom it mwy concern y I Be it known that 1, WILLIAM D. CUTLER, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvcnted a new 'Metl.-od of Preparing, Desiccating, and Preserving Fish, for family use and as an artieleof commerce; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same. I I

I take the fish, either fiesh or salted, and remove all I then put it in a machine adapted for grating or grinding, making this process such as to thoroughly disintegrate the fibre of the fish.

The next process is to desiccat-e it thoroughly. I do this'by spreading the mass upon metal or stone, or other suitable surface, heated by means of steam-pipes passing beneath the slabs.

Here the article remains, subject to gentle heat, 1111- til .it is well dried and in suitable condition for packing. Usual time of drying-process, under ordinary circumstances, from one-half hour to three or four hours.

I put up thearticle in close paper'or wooden boxes, to prevent absorption of moistiu'e or giving off unpleasantodor; one pound, more or less.

In drying, I do not confine myself to the method.

above given- Any other suitable methodmay be adopted.

If thought desirable, fish that are very fatty and oily may be subjected to pressure after being ground, to remove the superabundance of oil, and afterwards dried and packed.

. My invention consists in skinning, boning, disintegrating, and desiccating fish, by which it becomes not only convenient for packing, for commercial purposes,

but will be preserved'sweet and unchanged for along time, while in the ordinary state'it would deteriorate and become ruifit for use. Thus, the result of my ex, periments may be claimed as advantageous to the'commercial dealer, and of economy to the consumer.

The absence of oifensive odor from fish put up in this way, will go far in commending it to use.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The boned and desiccated-fish, as a new manufacture and connnercial article.

2. The hcrein-desciibed process or method of treatment of fish, substantially as set'forth andfor the pur- 

